At 03:31 PM 9/28/98 -0700, Marvin wrote:
>As usual, the VCF was a lot of fun and a great chance to put faces with many
>of the names that appear on this list. Besides the neat collection of older
>working computers on display, it seemed like most of the fun took place in
>the swap area.
Seconded, thirded, etc...!
>
>In the display area, The Computer Museum had a number of things including
>the Apple I. When I was talking to Carol Welsh of the Computer Museum, she
>indicated that someone had brought an Apple I to the VCF and sold it to
>someone else for $2000. At the point that I talked with her, the other
>person with her was trying to track down the parties involved.
Now, don't that make all of the people who did not attend REALLY sorry?
>Someone made the comment that there were two varieties of the Osbourne I,
>and I gather that the difference was in the case (not talking about the
>Executive, only the Osbourne I.) Anyone have any input on this? When I
>checked mine, they were both like the one on display which was supposed to
>be the older one but I'm not sure I've ever seen a One that looked any
>different.
Check my web site. I have both variations. The early one came in the
brown (tan) vacu-form'd case. The later version came in a grey molded case
and usually had the double-density upgrade standard.
>The tour of The Computer Museum at Moffet Field was incredible. The
>collection was what they called "Visible Storage" and they had about 2% of
>their collection where people could take a look.
Yep! It was most cool. Many thanks to Sam for putting the tour together.
-jim
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Received on Mon Sep 28 1998 - 18:00:19 BST